The Lucky One

U.S. Marine Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) comes to Louisiana looking for the woman who unwittingly saved his life in Iraq; when he finally meets Beth (Taylor Schilling) he’s unable to tell her how he knows her, but decides to stick around. Another schmaltzy Nicholas Sparks adaptation; apparently, it doesn’t matter whether Lasse Hallström or Scott Hicks makes them, they still end up looking like a Lifetime TV movie. This is an OK soaper with the expected twists that tend to keep cardboard characters like these busy until they’re finally allowed to live happily ever after.

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I studied film at Halmstad University and practical filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. Now I’m a critic for the Swedish daily Aftonbladet. Opinions expressed on this personal website are solely mine and not related to Aftonbladet.